NOBODY goes to that much trouble to fake not being godless...
“Having a form of religion but denying the power thereof.”
The new set of Orthodox in Russia are still fairly young. They would not have been practicing their faith publicly during the USSR era. I fear it’s been taken as more of a cool religion than a means of getting one’s heart right with the Lord.
Utterly godless no (any more than the US is utterly godless). But in big spiritual trouble, yes.